 | Henry Flanders - Maritime law - 1853 - 584 pages
...labor not exceeding ten years.1 91. It is also provided by an early Act,2 that if any person commit, upon the high seas, or in any river, haven, basin,...county, would, by the laws of the United States, be punishable with death; or if any captain or mariner of any vessel, shall piratically and feloniously... | |
 | John Frederick Archbold - Criminal law - 1853 - 1006 pages
...state, and the law of congress gave the United States courts cognizance only of " oßences committed on the high seas or in any river, haven, basin or bay out of the jurisdiction of any particular state." It was also held that the cession of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction to the federal courts,... | |
 | Furman Sheppard - Constitutional law - 1855 - 338 pages
...high seas, or in any river, haven, or bay, out of the jurisdiction of any particular State, or any offence which, if committed within the body of a county, would, by the laws of the United States, be punishable with death. § 286. It has further been enacted that, if any captain or mariner shall piratically... | |
 | Furman Sheppard - 1855 - 338 pages
...high seas, or in any river, haven, or bay, out of the jurisdiction of any particular State, or any offence which, if committed within the body of a county, would, by the laws of the United States, be punishable with death. § 286. It has further been enacted that, if any captain or mariner shall piratically... | |
 | John Bouvier - Law - 1855 - 774 pages
...high seas, or in any river, haven, or bay, out of the jurisdiction of any particular state, or any offence, which, if committed within the body of a...county, would, by the laws of the United States, be punishable with death, should be adjudged to be piracy and felony, and punishable with death. It was... | |
 | Furman Sheppard - Constitutional law - 1855 - 342 pages
...high seas, or in any river, haven, or bay, out of the jurisdiction of any particular State, or any offence which, if committed within the body of a county, would, by the laws of the United States, be punishable with death. § 286. It has further been enacted that, if any captain or mariner shall piratically... | |
 | Joel Parker - 1856 - 554 pages
...Chapter 9. The eighth section of that statute provides that, " if any perT son or persons shall commit upon the high seas, or in any river, haven, basin,...county, would by the laws of the United States be punishable with death ; every such offender shall be deemed, taken, and adjudged to be a pirate and... | |
 | Furman Sheppard - Constitutional law - 1857 - 356 pages
...high seas, or in any river, haven, or bay, out of the jurisdiction of any particular State, or any offence which, if committed within the body of a county, would, by the laws of the United States, be punishable with death. § 286. It has further been enacted that, if any captain or mariner shall piratically... | |
 | Theodore Sedgwick - Constitutional history - 1857 - 774 pages
...the United States (30th April, 1*790, c. 36) provided for the punishment of certain crimes committed upon the high seas, or in any river, haven, basin, or bay, out of the jurisdiction of any particular State. The 12th section provided for the punishment of manslaughter committed vpon ike high seas /... | |
 | United States. Attorney-General - Administrative law - 1858 - 600 pages
...pirate is hostis humani generis, and triable in any country. Beyond this, it comprehends acts " done upon the high seas, or in any river, haven, basin or bay, out of the jurisdiction of any particular State." (Act of April 30, 1790, s. 8.) All such acts, committed by Americans, are of the jurisdiction... | |
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that if any person or persons shall commit, upon the high seas, or in any river, haven, basin, or bay, out of the jurisdiction of any particular state... 
